China has developed nearly 300,000 students into village officials, with roughly two thirds of them incumbent, according to the latest data.
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The figures, released at a working conference of the Organization Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, also showed that 5,000 of them have been village heads.
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Li Yuanchao, head of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, urged organization officials to review the work on students-turned-officials and to perfect the system, so that they can serve as the backbones in building a socialist new countryside.
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According to a statement issued after the conference, these officials are supposed to offer information, technology, policy education and law services to farmers.
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Besides, greater efforts will be made to improve their employment, on-job education and promotion opportunities, and tougher tasks should be assigned to these young people, it was suggested.Â